POWER: Dr. Raver Marches On

Last week the biggest thing mankind has ever
made began to spurt power . As Grand Coulee's first bolt of
electricity sped to Bonneville's Government-owned transmission lines,
it signaled the start of another round in an old, old fight : public v.
private power.

To the people of the Pacific Northwest, public power is nothing new.
Seattle has had a municipal utility since 1905, and some other towns in
Washington and Ore gon have had them even longer. But behind these
scattered outposts lies a web of big private systems, covering a far
wider area than the famed British grid....